By: Samuel Adediran, Assistant Director Market Development & Access, GALVmed Ciru and Ciku are your typical small-scale farmers. They both live in Keringet, Nakuru Country in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Ciru is […]
By: Samuel Adediran, Assistant Director for Global Access, GALVmed With aggregate estimated population comprising 300m cattle, 1.8b chickens, 35m pigs and 650m sheep and goats, livestock production in Africa is important […]
By: Dr Mamta Dhawan, GALVmed Regional Manager: South Asia Thirty years ago I lost an uncle to rabies. His pet dog was not vaccinated against rabies and he licked a scratch […]
By: Samuel Adediran, Assistant Director of Global Access Malawi is one of the countries that is most affected by erratic climatic conditions and animal disease outbreaks, which have a critical negative […]
By: Rose Peter, Programme Manager: Animal African Trypanosomosis In recent weeks I have attended a couple of conferences where tryps have been on the agenda. One was in Liverpool, England (World […]
In rural India and Nepal, opportunities for women to contribute to household income are scarce. However, one asset most women do have access to is backyard poultry. Families typically keep five to ten chickens…
African animal trypanosomosis (AAT), widely known in Africa as nagana, is a deadly scourge of livestock flocks and herds, killing an estimated 3 million cattle each year, as well as many sheep and goats.
In Kaptipada village of Mayurbhanj District in Orissa, India lives a hardworking couple. Dashrathi and Fulomani Murmu have dedicated their lives to serving their community by taking care of their livestock. Dashrathi is mainly known within the community as the small animals’ doctor, while Fulomani is the village poultry doctor. Both are trained vaccinators.
Four young guys in a remote Dasokhao village of Ramgadh district near Ranchi were thinking of starting an enterprise with only a small initial investment. They came to know and interact with villagers in the area who have recently started vaccinating their backyard poultry (BYP).
It’s raining heavily when we reach Vincent Taracha’s home in the industrial town of Webuye in western Kenya. For decades, life in Webuye was defined by a paper mill industry called the Pan African Paper Mills. Locals and migrants, young and old, depended on it, working in the various sections of the huge factory that now sits forlornly on the hills of Webuye.